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Living a Beautiful Life: Five Hundred Ways to Add Elegance, Order, Beauty, and Joy to Every Day of Your LifeAlexandra StoddardNew York Random House 1986 0394555392 / 9780394555393 Later printing Hardcover Very Good+ Very Good+ Jacket Later printing in clean unchipped dust jacket. Clean red boards with red cloth spine, gold initials on cover, gold lettering on spine. No bumping or wear; narrow line of fading to top and bottom front board edges. Binding is tight, pages and edges are clean and bright, with red endpapers. Brief previous owner inscription on front free endpaper. Illustrated with drawings. 178 pages. Clean bright dust jacket is unchipped, not price clipped, no tears. Enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. An elegant, copious, and forever rereadable book which shows how to live a more beautiful and well-ordered life every single day. Hundreds of techniques for turning ordinary into the extraordinary, and for turning dull, irritating routinnes into life-enhancing rituals. 024392

The Home Mechanic's Outdoor HandbookHawkins, R.R. and C. H. AbbeNew York D. Van Nostrand Company 1950 First Edition, First Printing Hardcover Near Fine Very Good+ Jacket Clean solid book and original dust jacket. Clean gray cloth boards with stamped green lettering on cover and spine. No bumping or wear. Binding is tight & square, pages and edges are clean and bright. Clean endpapers; no names, writing or marks. Generously illustrated with detailed drawings and diagrams. 490 pages with index. Clean bright dust jacket is unchipped, not price clipped, a few short closed edge tears. Enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. Comprehensive and detailed working directions for building every outdoor feature that you may ever want to add to your home. Grills, fireplaces, shuffleboards, horsehoe grounds, badminton courts, tennis courts and swimming pools are among the features and improvements included in this book, along with curbs, edgings, terraces, breezeways, outdoor lighting systems and more. 023699

Inside of a Hundred HomesJohnson, William MartinNew York Doubleday Page 1904 Hardcover Very Good+ no dust jacket Very clean small decorated American trade binding (size approx. 4" x 6"). Dark green ribbed cloth boards with small light green floral decorations and lettering on cover and spine. No fraying or soiling. Binding is tight & square, no cracking. Pages and edges are clean, with clean endpapers. No names, writing or bookplates. Illustrated throughout with photographs of various settings within homes at the turn of the century, with commentary. 140 pages. 023728

Face and Ornamental Brickwork - PlasteringLowndes, William S.; George J. Jervis; D. Knickerbacker BoydScranton, Pennsylvania International Textbook Company 1923 Hardcover Very Good+ Black faux leather boards with blind-embossed lettering and title box on cover, gold lettering on spine. No fraying or wear. Book size approx. 5" x 8". Well illustrated with drawings and photographs, including a color fold-out showing examples of stucco. Binding is tight and square, no cracking. Beautiful marbled endpapers are clean and free of any markings. Prepared under the supervision of William S. Lowndes. Face and Ornamental Brickwork portion of the book authored by George J. Jervis; Plastering is by D. Knickerbacker Boyd. 90 pages. 024790

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